Current PhD students
Follow the links below for more information on the work of our current PhD students, by subject area.
Architecture
- Angela Connelly
- Methodist Central Halls as public sacred space.
Supervisors: Michael Hebbert and Andrew Crompton. - Julie Crawshaw
- Beyond targets: articulating the role of public art in support of sustainable communities.
Supervisors: Joanne Tippett and Albena Yaneva - Ambrose Gillick
- Investigation into participatory design and self build.
Supervisors: Simon Guy and Diana Mitlin. - Liam Heaphy
- The development and use of climate models for representing and communicating policy-driven scientific research
Supervisors: Albena Yaneva and Simon Guy. - Övgü Pelen
- The living legacy of modernism: Catalysing the Industrial Past.
Supervisors: Albena Yaneva and Isabelle Doucet. - Elisa Pieri
- Urban futures: How issues of security and aspirations of cosmopolitanism reconfigure the city centre.
Supervisors: Alan Warde and Simon Guy. - Viktoria Wesslowski
- Facilitating sustainable social practices.
Supervisors: Simon Guy and Ralf Brand. - Sercan Yalçıner
- Transferability of sustainable building codes?
Supervisors: Dr. Ralf Brand, Prof. Simon Guy and Dr. Andrew Karvonen. - Yasser Zarei
- Architecture through the looking glass: In search of a new epistemology of design process.
Supervisors: Albena Yaneva and Isabelle Doucet.
Geography
- Kathryn Adamson
- The response of Mediterranean river basins to Pleistocene glaciation.
Supervisors: Jamie Woodward and Phil Hughes. - Constantinos Antonopoulos
- The evolving interface between port-city and global production networks. A case study of Piraeus, Athens.
Supervisors: Martin Hess and Neil Coe. - Janice Astbury
- Inviting landscapes - engaging citizens with ecosystem services for sustainable urban infrastructure.
Supervisors: James Evans and Joanne Tippett. - Jason Beery
- Constellations of power: the state, capital and nature in the uneven production of outer space.
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Noel Castree. - Alexandra Buckland-Wright
- Transnational retail in developing economies: Regulating the transformation of retail markets.
Supervisors: Neil Coe and Martin Hess. - Beth Cole
- High resolution remote sensing for landscape scale restoration of peatland.
Supervisors: Julia McMorrow and Martin Evans. - Dawn Cole
- Housing biographies and the construction of 'liveable' places.
Supervisors: Kevin Ward and Mark Jayne - Alan Davis
- Chinese labour migration to the UK.
Supervisors: Neil Coe and Kevin Ward - Robin De La Motte
- Waterworks: public participation, social capital and co-production in the (peri) urban water sector in Latin America.
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Diana Mitlin. - Suraya Fazel-Ellahi
- Water, Power and Reverse Osmosis Technology: water crises and solutions in the coastal towns of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Supervisors: Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw. - Lisa Ficklin
- The Political Ecology of Environmental Crisis: Neoliberalising Nature and Political Identity in Nicaragua.
Supervisors: Noel Castree and Rosaleen Duffy. - Ralitsa Hiteva
- Geographies of energy governance – negotiating low carbon and energy secure futures in the European Union.
Supervisors: Gavin Bridge and Sally Randles. - Robert James
- The Address as a Special Case in Geographical Referencing.
Supervisors: Chris Perkins, Martin Dodge and Robert Barr. - Sarah Kneen
- The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition of north-west Europe: climatic change, human impact and the adoption of agriculture.
Supervisors: Jeff Blackford and Pete Ryan. - Lazaros Karaliotas
- “There is no such thing as ‘The Port of Balkans’: Urban Élite Configurations and Post-Political Politics in Thessaloniki’s Port Restructuring”
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika. - Guy C.K. Leung (Chun Kai Leung)
- Geographical political economy of natural gas industry in China.
Supervisors: Gavin Bridge and Neil Coe. - Gail Millin-Chalabi
- A multisensor approach to monitor moorland fires and post fire impact for the Peak District National Park
Supervisors: Julia McMorrow and Clive Agnew. - Miranda Morgan
- Women, gender and protest: contesting oil palm plantation expansion in Sambas district, Indonesia.
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Noel Castree. - Piotr Niewiadomski
- Interdependencies between the corporate growth and spatial expansion of international hotel groups.
Supervisors: Martin Hess and Neil Coe. - Genevieve Potts
- Investigating Late-Holocene Climatic Fluctuations Using Palaeoecology in the Orkney Islands.
Supervisors: Jeff Blackford and James Rothwell. - Laura Pottinger
- Ethical consumption and alternative food movements.
Supervisors: Noel Castree and Mark Jayne. - Hugo Romero
- A Political Ecology of the HidroAysen Hydropower Project in Chilean Patagonia.
Supervisors: Gavin Bridge and Tony Bebbington. - Brian Rosa
- Beneath the arches: Re-appropriating the spaces of infrastructure in Manchester
Supervisors: Maria Kaika and James Evans. - Emma Shuttleworth
- Sediment and pollutant dynamics in degraded peatlands using geochemical and geophysical tracers.
Supervisors: Martin Evans and James Rothwell. - Cynthia Skelhorn
- Evaluation of the impacts of urban greenspace on building energy consumption.
Supervisors: Sarah Lindley and Professor Geoff Levermore. - Andrew Speak
- Quantification of the urban microclimate modification properties of green roofs.
Supervisors: Claire Smith and Sarah Lindley. - Andrew Stimson
- Fluvial Carbon dynamics in restored peatland catchments: implications for water supply.
Supervisors: Martin Evans, Tim Allott and Steve Boult. - Joanna Tantanasi
- Adaptive governance for carbon sequestration: The case of the peatlands in the Peak District National Park.
Supervisors: James Evans and Clive Agnew. - Isaac Tchuwa
- Hydro-social Permutations of Water Commodification in Blantyre City.
Supervisors: Gavin Bridge and Maria Kaika. - Craig Thomas
- Exploring the practice of PM10 modelling and monitoring and its translation into air quality management.
Supervisors: Noel Castree and James Evans. - Georgios Tzimas
- Understanding local geographies of retail development and retail regulation: Corporate strategies of multiple food retailers in three medium sized cities in Greece.
Supervisor: Martin Hess and Neil Coe. - Mark Usher
- Governing the hydrosocial cycle in Singapore: Tapping into the “intelligent island” discourse.
Supervisors: Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw. - Nadia von Benzon
- Learning Disabled Childhoods and Experiences of the Natural Environment.
- Jennifer Watts
- The Institutional Context for Temporary Staffing: a European cross-national comparative study.
Supervisors: Neil Coe and Kevin Ward. - Jana Wendler
- Exploring the role of play and playfulness in environmental efforts and sustainability engagement
Supervisors: James Evans and Mark Jayne - Rose Wilkinson
- Quaternary vegetation dynamics in Montenegro through multiple glacial-interglacial cycles.
Supervisors: Jeff Blackford, Jamie Woodward and Phil Hughes. - Yue Wang
- Exploring retail transnational corporations (TNCs) and supply chains transformation in Shanghai, China.
Supervisors: Neil Coe and Martin Hess. - Yu-hin Wong, Sampson
- Where the wild things were: urban (bio)political ecology of live poultry in Hong Kong.
Supervisors: Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw.
Institute for Development Policy and Management
- Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai
- The state and the north-south inequality in Ghana.
Supervisors: David Hulme and Anthony Bebbington. - Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah
- Women’s empowerment and mother and child health in Ghana.
Supervisor: David Lawson - Robert Ahearne
- Understanding contemporary development: Tanzanian life narratives of intervention.
Supervisors: Uma Kothari and Sarah Bracking. - Shamel Al-Azmeh
- Chinese firms in the Middle East: Dragon multinationals reshaping the global economy?
Supervisors: Khalid Nadvi and Stephanie Barreintos. - Khalid Al-Jarradi
- The politics of development: investigating the impact of international migration on poverty.
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman and Farhad Hossain. - Khamis Al-Kulaiby
- The politics of development: investigating the impact of international migration on poverty.
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman and Chris Rees. - Enya Mensa Ameza
- Corporate governance and institutions: a study of the banking sector of Ghana.
Supervisor: Thankom Arun and Yin-Fang Zhang. - Justice Nyigmah Bawole
- Decentralising into whose hands? An examination of local government and NGO relations in poverty reduction programme implementation in Ghana.
Supervisors: Dr Farhad Hossain and Dr Aminu Mamman. - Badru Bukenya
- NGOs, Citizenship and State Formation in Uganda: The Politics of Responding to HIV/AIDS.
Supervisors: Dr. Sam Hickey and Dr. Admos Chimhowu. - Andrea Bardelli Danieli
- Policy-making and regulatory activities in the ICT sector in developing countries: diffusion of the web, the internet and other ICTs in Uganda.
Supervisor: Richard Heeks. - Daniel Bendix
- Postcolonial development? Tracing German maternal health policy in Tanzania.
Supervisors: Dr Uma Kothari and Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez. - Margaret Chebere
- Overcoming the urban penalty in Bangladesh: The need for pro-poor policies and a better understanding of the extreme urban poor.
Supervisors: Derek Eldridge and Richard Duncombe. - John Childs
- Prospects for fair trade gold: A critical analysis of small-scale mining in Ghana.
Supervisors: Gavin Hilson and Admos Chimhowu. - Beth Chitekwe-Biti
- The impact of social movements on urban land policy in Southern Africa: Case studies of Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Supervisors: Diana Mitlin and Admos Chimhowu. - Kledia Dallto
- The impact of free trade on potential cross - Border and investment promotion.
Supervisors: Colin Kirkpatrick and Thankom Arun. - Diseye Dasimaka
- Social movements and the oil politics in the Niger region of Nigeria.
Supervisors: Admos Chimhowu and Tanja Mueller. - Jean Lynette David
- The Role of the agricultural sector in poverty reduction: identifying/developing sustainable diversification pathways for poverty reduction.
Supervisor: Wendy Olsen. - Richard Devey
- The role of the agricultural sector in poverty reduction: identifying/developing sustainable diversification pathways for poverty reduction.
Supervisors: Philip Woodhouse and J.May (UKN - external). - Maura Duffy
- Popular education and the empowerment of marginalised groups.
Supervisor: Tanja Mueller. - Christopher Foster
- Understanding locally emergent ICT micro-enterprises in the South.
Supervisors: Richard Heeks and Richard Duncombe. - Emanuela Girei
- Learning in NGO development - A case study in Kibaale District, West Uganda.
Supervisors: Pete Mann and A.Contu (external). - Marta Guerriero
- Growing uneven. The determinants of functional distribution of income.
Supervisors: Professor Kunal Sen and Dr Xiaobing Wang. - Panom Gunawong
- E-government in Thailand: A study of an adoption of E-government from 2001-2005 and its effects on the knowledge-based society in Thailand.
Supervisors: Ping Gao and Richard Heeks. - Natalie Gupta
- Market competition, industrial restructuring, and working class livelihoods in India: A case study of selected industrial districts.
Supervisors: Willy McCourt and Michael Woolcock. - Jessica Hawkins
- A framework of social power for states in development: the case of Ugandan state formation.
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby and Sam Hickey. - Ye Hou
- Managing information system security in institutions.
Supervisors: Ping Gao and Richard Heeks. - Kirsten Howarth
- A liberal or illiberal peace: A critical analysis of post-conflict reconstruction in Lebanon and El Salvador.
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby and Richard Jackson. - Tomasz Iwanow
- Openness, growth and poverty: Case study of an episode of trade liberalization in Moldova.
Supervisors: Colin Kirkpatrick and Kunal Sen. - Huraera Jabeen
- The gender dynamics of asset-based adaptation to climate variability in the built environment by the urban poor in Bangladesh.
Supervisors: Caroline Moser and Simon Guy. - Rossilah Jamil
- In search of excellence: The roles of management development in achieving corporate success.
Supervisor: Chris Rees. - Patamawadee Jongruck
- The new public management and decentralisation: A contradiction of Thai administrative reforms.
Supervisors: Willy McCourt and Derek Eldridge. - Artan Karini
- The impact of external assistance on public service capacity building in Southeast Europe.
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby and Richard Common. - Hanan Khazragui
- Labour Markets in Developing Countries: Evaluating the net employment effect of foreign direct investments in the labour market in Egypt during the 1990s - Greenfield investments versus acquisitions.
Supervisor: Paul Cook. - Malathy Knight-John
- The political economy of telecommunications reforms and regulation in developing countries: A case study of Sri Lanka.
Supervisors: Martin Minogue and Paul Cook. - Sojin Lim
- New mode of aid: Efficient and effective approaches to end poverty in east Africa.
Supervisors: Sarah Bracking and Farhad Hossain. - Gabriella McMichael
- Post war refugee return and urban land contestation: networks and politics in negotiating access to land in Juba, South Sudan.
Supervisors: Admos Chimhowu and Caroline Moser. - Joon-Ho Maeng
- Migration, remittances and low-income household strategies in Thailand.
Supervisors: Sarah Bracking and Hulya Ulku. - Shireen Mahdi
- Fostering rural market institutional arrangements for pro-poor growth: Case of Tanzania.
Supervisors: Kunal Sen and Katsushi Imai. - Lance Mambondiani
- Corporate governance and bank reforms: The case of Zimbabwe.
Supervisor: Yin-Fang Zhang. - Julia Mase
- Old age poverty in South Africa: Household responses to social transfer receipts.
Supervisor: Armando Barrientos. - Didier Matamba
- Aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of mismatches between donors and recipients.
Supervisors: Richard Duncombe and Derek Eldridge. - Sadia Mohammed Banchirigah
- Alternative livelihoods: An effective strategy for poverty alleviation in ghana's artisanal mining communities?.
Supervisor: Gavin Hilson. - Sithembiso Myeni
- An examination of women participation in local governance in post apartheid South Africa.
Supervisor: Sarah Bracking and Tanja Mueller. - Purnima Purohit
- Institutional design and operation of agricultural markets: Implications for poverty reduction in India.
Supervisors: Kunal Sen and Katsushi Imai. - Luigi Pietro Ragno
- Linking protection and promotion in poor households: Social pension scheme and poverty reduction in urban Bangladesh
Supervisors: Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. - Farzana Ramzan
- Redefining success: Local participation and poverty reduction in Tanzania.
Supervisors: Michael Woolcock and Tony Addison - Richard Record
- The poverty impact of reforming the private sector enabling environment in Vietnam .
Supervisors: Kunal Senand Khalid Nadvi. - Gale Raj Reichert
- International trade and the environment in developing countries: Environmental justice in the international context.
Supervisors: Khalid Nadvi and Erik Swyngedouw. - Piyawadee Rohitarachoon
- Human resource capacity building for local governance in Thailand: current challenges and future opportunities.
Supervisors: Farhad Hossain and Willy McCourt. - Francis Sanyare
- Decentralisation reforms and rural community development: Empirical perspectives from Northern Ghana.
Supervisor: Dr. Farhad Hossain and Dr. Christopher Rees. - Gemma Sou
- Investing migrant remittances in housing: are households autonomously reducing their vulnerability to environmental hazards?
Supervisors: Tanja Bastia and Uma Kothari. - Violeta Spasova
- Human Resource Management and Organisational Change: Implications of European Union Accession for Organisations in Bulgaria.
Supervisor: Chris Rees - Ganga Tilakaratna
- Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study of Samurdhi, SANASA and SEEDS.
Supervisors: David Hulme and Tony Addison. - Georgios Tsopanakis
- The Japanese Paradigm: JICA’s Development Projects in Health and Education in Ghana.
Supervisors: Hulya Ulku and Sarah Bracking. - Ximena Warnaars
- Identity, conflict and communication: indigenous perspectives on their conflicts with extractive industries.
Supervisors: Tony Bebbington and Penelope Harvey (SOSS) - Yu Zheng
- The applicability of HRM in joint ventures organisations within the chinese context.
Supervisors: Chris Rees and Paul Barry.
Planning
- Felix I. Aponte-Gonzalez
- Concerning Caribbean Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Adaptation in Small Island Cities.
Supervisors: Iain White and Richard Kingston. - Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat
- The application of Strategic Spatial Planning under Regionalist and Localist Approaches to Public Policy.
Supervisors: Mark Baker and Graham Haughton. - Rocco Luigi Bubbico
- Effectiveness and Key Drivers of Local Partnerships for Innovation: The Case of Objective 1 Regions of EU.
Supervisors: Michael Hebbert and Mark Baker. - Julie Crawshaw
- Beyond Targets: articulating the role of public art in support of sustainable communities.
Supervisors: Joanne Tippett and Albena Yaneva. - Jennifer Hall
- Developing Techniques to Measure the Social Consequences of Brownfield Regeneration..
Supervisors: Iain Deas, Paul Syms and Cecilia Wong. - Samuel Hayes
- Strategic Environmental Assessment and Sustainability Appraisal in Scotland and England: sustainability and environmental outcomes.
Supervisors: Carys Jones and Adam Barker. - Nichola Headlam
- Rescaling the State: Local Area Agreements and Sustainable Communities.
Supervisors: Jon Coaffee and Iain Deas. - James Hopkins
- Between Researchers and Users - the Regional Studies Association as a Learned Society, 1965-2005.
Supervisors: Prof. Michael Hebbert and Cecilia Wong. - Ann Louise Kolodziejski
- Connecting People and Nature: The Role of Envisioning and Local Action in the Support of Biodiversity.
Supervisors: Mark Baker and Joanne Tippett. - Ting-I Lee
- Smart Growth Management of Contemporary Urbanism: Learning European Experience of Spatial Planning System.
Supervisors: Cecilia Wong and Philip Bell. - Michal Miedzinski
- Regional and Urban Foresight - Towards Sustainable Policy Making. Comparative Analysis of Selected Foresight Exercices in Europe.
Supervisors: Joe Ravetz and Michael Keenan (MBS). - Karen Nolan
- Cumulative impact - The role of small brownfield sites in urban regeneration
Supervisors: Michael Hebbert and Paul Syms. - Jessica Roccard
- Disaster risk management and integrated water resource management in low-income urban areas: Application and linkage.
Supervisors: Alfredo Stein and Caroline Moser. - Jessica Soraya Pineda Zumaran
- A Spatial Planning Framework for Including the Environmental Perspective in the Context of the Free Market Economy Policy in Peruvian Middle-sized Cities. Case Study: Arequipa, Peru.
Supervisors: Cecilia Wong and Iain White. - Hui Qian
- Regional Spatial Planning Response to Urban-Rural Interaction in China.
Supervisors: Cecilia Wong and Mark Baker. - Oyan Solana Oses
- Socio-economic paradigms of the Mexican social housing market and their influence on horizontal growth.
Supervisors: Michael Hebbert and Alfredo Stein Heinemann. - Dan Strosnider
- Deconstructing Spatial Concepts to Better Understand Functional Areas in the Periphery: A Greater Manchester Case Study.
Supervisors: Iain White and Philip Bell. - Logakanthi Subramanian
- Management of Electronic Waste in the IT/ITES Service Sector.
Supervisors: Carys Jones and Richard Heeks - Jenni Viitanen
- Citizenship in the Electronically Networked City.
Supervisors: Richard Kingston and Jon Coaffee. - Brian Webb
- Spatial Policy Coordination in Decentralised Nations: The Benefits and Barriers to the Implementation of National Planning in Canada.
Supervisors: Cecilia Wong and Iain Deas. - Zhenbo Yu
- Local Identity in the Contemporary City: Urban Design for Local Character in Modern China
Supervisors: Michael Hebbert and Andrew Crompton. - Yi Zhang
- New Best Practice in Sustainable Design of Urban Streets in China.
Supervisors: Michael Hebbert and Andrew Crompton. - Kai Zhou
- Transportation System Accessibility Analysis and its Relationship with Regional Development.
Supervisors: Mark Baker and Richard Kingston.